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CARLOS LA PRELETTE PAGE, OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOX-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,660, dated September 11, 18,83.

Application filed June 18, 1883.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be lit known that I, CARLOS LA .PRELETTE PAGE, of Cambridgeport, in the county of longitudinal and vertical section, of a packing-box containing my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 5is ahorizontal section taken through the springs of the cover-fasteners.

The invention is to be found in the peculiar construction of the box or packing-case and the means of fastening its cover to the body of such box or case.

In such drawings, A denotes the packingbox body, and B its cover.

There is iixed to the body, at each end of it, vand even with its upper edge, a handling or lifting cleat, C, having its lower edge at an acute angle to the outer side of the cleat.

Vithin the cleat is a chamber, c, opening through the outer side of the cleat.

' Pivoted within the cleat, at its rear part and at its middle, is a short cylindrical shank, b, havinga f0ot, c, and an earj d, extending from it in manner and formed as repre-v sented, the ear being above the top of the boxbody, and the foot being extended into the chamber a through an opening, e, at the back thereof. rIhe heel o iei'oot bears against a spring, f, iixed to the back of the cleat, there being in the end of the box and in rear of the spring a groove, g, to enable the spring to be moved by the foot.

Each shank, its ear, and foot constitute what may be termed a catch,77 E, it being revoluble through an obtuse angle and against the spring, which also serves to hold it in either of its extreme positions. Furthermore, there is in each end of the packing-box cover B a rectangular notch, l1., within which, and fast- 166,400, and 274,497.

ened to the cover, is a metallic catch-plate, D,

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in which, at its middle, is a notch, z', to receive the upper part of the shank I).

To strengthen Vthe box-cover, it may have cleats 7c 7c extended across and fastened to it close to its notches. On turning each of the catches into its median position and placing the cover on the body of the box, so that the Shanks of the catches may be within the notches of the catch-plates, and by turning each catch a little in either direction laterally, its spring will complete the turning of the catch into one of its extreme positions, in which case the foot of the catch will bring up against the back m of the chamber in the cleat, and be stoppedthereby. The ear of each catch will then be turned upon the catchplate, so as with such to hold the cover securely in place on the box-body. On turning the catches into their median positions, their springs will holdthem in such, to enable the cover to be easily removed from the boxbody. The notches in the cover and the recesses or chambers in the cleats effectually protect the catches, so as to prevent them from being accidentally turned while the box may be in use or transit.

I do not claim a box having to its cover and 7 5 body fastenings as represented in the United States Patent No. 165,044, wherein the cover is shown as provided at each end with a recessed cleat and a spring-catch, the latter being to engage with a staple extending up from a cleat fastened to the end of the body. Nor do I claim boxes or other devices made or provided with fastenings as described and shown in the United States Patents Nos. 136,968,

I claim- The described box-cover fastening, consisting of the catch-plate, notched as shown, and of the revoluble catch, consisting of the shank, the ear and foot, and their operative spring, 9o arranged as set forth.

cAELos LA PEELETTE PAGE.

Witnesses: l

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

